Satapatha Bramhana Part 02

SR No.: 007678
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1885
Total Pages: 2521
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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KHÂDIRA-GRIHYA-SOTRA.
27. At the evening twilight, 'When thou goest to rest' (1. 1. 16).
KHANDA 2. 1. Having kept the vow (of fasting) through one fortnight, he should, on the first day of the dark fortnight, feed the Brahmanas with boiled milk-rice prepared of one Kamsa of rice.
2. The small grains of that (rice) he should sacrifice (day by day) at the evening twilight to the west of the village, on a place which he has besmeared (with cowdung), with the formula, 'To Phala' (MB. II, 5, 17).
3. And with the formula), ‘To Phalla!' The same on the first day of the next dark fortnight.
4. He shall observe chastity till the end (of the
rite).
5. A hundred cart-loads (of gold) will be his.
6. A Brâhmana should elect the site for building his house on white ground, a Kshatriya on red, a Vaisya on black, which should be even, covered with grass, not salinous, not dry--
7. Where the water flows off to the north-west.
8. (Plants) with milky juice or with thorns or acrid plants should not be there.
27. pratitishthantam tveti paskimâm.
2, 1. ardhamâsavratî tâmisrâdau brâhmanân ásayed vrîhikamsaudanam. 2. tasya kanân aparâsu sandhyâsu pratyag grâmât sthandilam upalipya Phalâyeti guhuyât. . 3. Phallâyeti kaivam evâparasmims tâmisrâdau. 4. brahmakaryam â samâpter. 5. âkitasatam bhavati. 6. gaure bhůmibhâge brâhmano lohite kshatriyah krishne vaisyos vasânam goshayet samam lomasam anîrinam asushkam. 7. yatrodakam pratyagudikim pravartate. 8. kshîrinah kantakinah (sic) katukâs kâtraushadhayo na syur.
2, 1-5=Gobhila IV, 6, 13-16.
6-23=IV, 7.
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